That's normal behavior for any ADSM server on any system
whose dispatch unit is a process instead of a thread.
On AIX 4.x, Sun Solaris and OS/2, ADSM consists of a single
process with multiple threads.  There could be a problem
starting multiple processes if the process per id limit
is exceeded.

Barry Fruchtman
ADSM Development

On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, LAbbinante wrote:

> ----------
> We have just started our second ADSM server, this time on HP-UX.  I
> noticed that when it starts up, about 20+ child processes start up
> along with original parent process.  Is this normal??  I seem to
> remember a problem a while back where no more processes could start
> because the semaphores had been exhausted.  If this is normal for these
> processes to start, am I impacting the system any.  I'm not a Unix
> guru, so forgive me if this sounds kind of fundamental to Unix.
>
> Thanks.....
> L. Abbinante
> labbinante AT ual DOT com
>